What To Do In Rotterdam, The Netherlands | Eileen Aldis Travel Channel
What To Do In Rotterdam, The Netherlands
This video is a city guide and city tour of Rotterdam. You'll see my top 5 highlights of one of the most modern cities in Europe.
Above all, Rotterdam is a city with vision. It was very nearly completely destroyed during World War II and chose to see the devastating loss as an opportunity to innovate and build anew. The city was a blank slate for architects and artists. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of war, this Dutch city has become a city of the future. Rotterdam is a centre for design, art, architecture, and sustainability. Locals joke that you should take a photo of the skyline today because it won't be the same tomorrow.
The Floating Forest is a great symbol of all that Rotterdam cultivates and inspires. It's an art installation of twenty live trees floating in the harbour. Rotterdam has the largest harbour in Europe and you can't talk about the city without reference to the water. The trees are recycled from the city's 'tree bank.' With all the new construction, trees are sometimes cut down in the march of progress. Now, instead of being chopped, they are moved to a tree bank for further use and enjoyment. The trees float in recycled sea buoys that are filled with fresh water to sustain the trees. The artist, Jorge Bakker, hopes the public art will get people talking about the relationship between the city dweller and nature. In this time of climate change and urbanization, this is relevant not only to Rotterdam but the entire world.
The Erasmus Bridge - Erasmusbrug, in Dutch - is the graceful link between northern and southern Rotterdam. Locals adore this steel-cabled suspension bridge and lovingly refer to it as 'the swan.'
Nearby the bridge, and across from the Fenix Food Factory, is Hotel New York. This is the former head office of the Holland America Line - the first shipping and passenger ship connecting the Netherlands and the United States. It was also the first connection between the two continents.
The newest architectural gem of Rotterdam is the Market Hall (Markthal). It's the first covered market in the Netherlands and is a masterful example of innovative multi-use space. Inside you'll find food vendors, shops, restaurants, parking for 1200 cars and over 200 residential apartments. The exterior is plain grey stone so as to draw attention to the interior which is dominated by the massive painting on the ceiling. Covering 11,000 square metres, it's the largest painting in the world and is known as the Sistine Chapel of Rotterdam.
Just across from the Markthal are the world-famous, iconic cube houses. Conceived and designed in the 1970s to solve the dilemma of housing above a pedestrian bridge, these atypical homes show, again, how Rotterdam answers limitation with innovation. The cube houses are meant to represent an abstract forest and are tilted at an angle that gives excellent views of the surrounding area. Ironically, however, because of the slanted walls and ceilings, only a quarter of the interior space is actually usable.
Looking around, it's easy to see why Rotterdam feels futuristic and is leading the way for green living and modern design. Have you visited Rotterdam? I'd love to hear your impressions so please leave a comment down below.
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Zeeland Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Zeeland? Check out our Zeeland Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Zeeland.
Top Places to visit in Zeeland:
Bizarium, Oostkapelle Beach, Watersnoodmuseum, Strand Domburg, Deltawerken Oosterschelde, Plompetoren, Boulevard van Vlissingen, Middelburg Town Hall, Nature Reserve de Manteling, Zeeuws Maritiem muZEEum, Stoomtrein Goes-Borsele, Stadshaven Goes, Zeeuws Museum Middelburg, Vrouwenpolder Beach, Sint Lievensmonstertoren
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Destination 2018: Aachen
On the very edge of Germany, yet at the centre of German history, the city of Aachen features hot springs, an 8th-century chapel now part of a massive cathedral, and the chance to visit two other countries simultanously.
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Vakantieappartement Zeeland - Kapelle, Netherlands - HD Review
Vakantieappartement Zeeland - Special club price! -
Vakantieappartement Zeeland is a self-catering accommodation located in Kapelle at 1,800 feet from the train station. Free Wi-Fi access is available.
The two-bedroom apartment will provide you with a TV, a terrace and a seating area. There is a full kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave. Featuring a shower, private bathroom also comes with free toiletries.
At Vakantieappartement Zeeland you will find a garden and a terrace. Activities in the surrounding area include cycling. The property offers free parking.
Goes can be reached within 14 minutes by car and Wemeldinge is 3.7 miles away. Rotterdam Airport is located 39.1 miles from the property.
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Volendam & Edam, Holland
Die malerische Innenstadt Edams bietet Ihnen Häuser und Grachten aus dem 17 und 18 Jahrhundert. Diese lassen sich perfekt von ihrem NOVASOL Ferienhaus in Holland aus erkunden. Volendam & Edam liegen ganz in der Nähe von Amsterdam. Die wunderschöne Nikolaikirche ziert dieses Stück der Niederlande. Mit seinem Glockenspiel, das in regelmäßigen Abständen erklingt, fasziniert es jeden Besucher. Edam hat eine Jahrhunderte alte Tradition was den Käsemarkt betrifft, den Sie hier jeden Mittwoch im Sommer besuchen können. Im Edamer Museum befindet sich das älteste Steinhäuschen, das Sie besichtigen können. Aber es gibt auch noch andere Dinge zu erkunden. So haben Sie die Möglichkeit das Stadtmuseum zu besuchen und mehr über die Geschichte zu erfahren. Volendam zeichnet sich durch seine traditionellen Trachten aus, die Sie hier an den Bewohnern bewundern können. Die schönen Holzhäuser, die Kirmes und Läden in den Gassen laden zum verweilen ein. Auch über die Gastronomie lässt sich nicht meckern, denn davon gibt es auch genug. Von hier aus können Sie auch eine Tagestour nach Amsterdam starten. Dort sind einige Dinge zu entdecken. Hier befindet sich ein breites Spektrum an Sehenswürdigkeiten, so wie den Königspalast und eine Vielzahl an Museen, die Sie besuchen sollten. Oder vielleicht haben Sie auch Lust mit der Familie einen Zoo Besuch zu planen? Dann wäre der Amsterdamer Zoo genau das richtige. Vielleicht doch lieber eine kleine kulinarische Reise? Dann gehen Sie am besten auf den Albert Cuip Markt in Amsterdam, auf dem Sie eine Menge an Spezialitäten finden. Spät am Abend, wenn Sie zurück sind, sollten Sie einen Spaziergang machen, denn hier sind die Sonnenuntergänge einfach nur herrlich und spektakulär. Es darf auch etwas romantisch sein, genießen Sie von der Veranda aus den Sonnenuntergang mit den Liebsten, ein Glas Wein und ein leckeres Stück Käse dazu und den Tag kann man perfekt ausklingen lassen. Ausgeruht können Sie dann in den neuen Tag starten und zu neuen Abenteuern aufbrechen. Novasol website:
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Abandoned Palace: 600-Year-Old Time Capsule - Urbex Lost Places Italy
Urban Exploration: Abandoned manor house Castello dell'Artista explored (English and German subtitles are available!) Episode #119
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In this episode the BWT crew and The Proper People are exploring an 600-year-old palace together. Over the course of the centuries this building complex was in possession of a famous Italian noble family. Generations of warlords spent many years of their lives here using the building as hunting lodge. The last resident however was an engineer and artist. Still today you can find plenty of his belongings like paintings and sculptures. For us personally this mansion is so impressive that it already appears unreal. We're always surprised about the hidden and almost untouched time capsules we're able to discover on our adventures!
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Beautiful Cemetery in Europe
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The St. John's Cemetery is a world famous cemetery in Nuremberg with historical, artistically valuable Bronzeepitaphien designed, culturally and historically situated significant (standardized) grave stones and grave Insert famous Nuremberg from four centuries. Because of the many rose bushes he is also called Rose Cemetery. Due to the historical sights of St. John's Cemetery is a world famous tourist destination in the context of a cemetery tourism and a station within the Historical Mile of Nuremberg.
The cemetery is located west of Nuremberg city wall in St. Johannis, which was incorporated in 1825. In the midst of the cemetery is originally from the 13th century St. John's church. On the eastern edge is the round wood Schuher -Kapelle (1513-1515), the Beheim Hans the Elder attributed. The former cemetery of the old settlement locust was about the 10th / 11th Century created. Nucleus of the later St. John's Cemetery was 1234 Siechkobel (Aussätzigenhaus) for lepers. For 1395 there the plague cemetery was consecrated with Stephen Chapel (later Holzschuherkapelle).
At Nuremberg, the dead, the two parishes were buried in the Middle Ages in the cemeteries, St. Sebald and St. Lorenz surrounded them. During the great plague of the late Middle Ages, the Council said in 1518 but any funeral on these old cemeteries within the city walls. For the Parish of St. Lawrence was near the Spittlertor Rochusfriedhof created. The Sebalder citizens were buried in the St. John's Cemetery, which existed since the 13th century. There was the Leprösenfriedhof behind the church since 1518 and also the cemetery.
From the city to the cemetery leads Nuremberg Way of the Cross with seven stages: 1506-1508 by Adam Kraft created. Today at the crossroads only copies of these works are situated. The original stations are located in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, the Crucifixion in the Holy Spirit hospital and burial in the Holzschuherkapelle.
The St. John's Cemetery is in the 13th century in the former north-western suburb of St. Locust at the former St. John Siechkobel emerged around - the oldest surviving dating from the year 1238. Later, the area has grown together with an adjacent plague cemetery and several expansion areas. In the 16th century, when the Council officially banned burials within the city walls, the St. John's Cemetery burial place for the dead of Sebalder half of the city was, whereas the Rochusfriedhof Lorenzer state.
In the Middle Ages it shifted the funeral in the area of the church building. Man leaning based on the Germanic-Celtic tradition burial as well as cremation from a pagan. In many religions, the cemetery is a sacred place. In Christianity it is traditionally consecrated by the responsible minister. This ritual meaning of the cemetery has produced a number of taboos, moral obligations and laws. A cemeteries Catholics are called also campossantos, since in Pisa, when in compliance with hygiene authority ordered to close the cemetery, which was built in the thirteenth century within the city, the ground was covered with a layer of land, which the Pisan galleys had brought from the holy places of Jerusalem.
Then, by donating some powerful cemetery in which were built were erected altars and chapels for funeral ceremonies and devotions however observed civil laws prohibiting buried in town. One of the oldest still in use in the Netherlands are other cemeteries Moscowa in Arnhem and Cemetery and Old Oak Dunes in The Hague. The Hague cemetery is already in the 14th century named as parish cemetery in documents.
By extension, the cemetery is any public and sacred ground where, after a ceremony, we bury the dead of the same human group or individual graves lignagières where their memory is generally marked by a monument, symbols or inscriptions. General Cemetery term eventually encompass the field of funeral and cemetery. A cemetery or graveyard is where lie the bodies of the dead. Depending on the culture of the place, the bodies can be left in a coffin or simply can be enclosed in cloth or animal fat. Then be buried underground, placed in a vault or other grave. The word comes from the Greek cemetery koimetérion meaning bedroom, since according to Christian belief, the cemetery we went to sleep until the time of the resurrection.
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Windsor Castle Drone • The Largest Inhabited Castle in the World
Windsor Castle Drone - During our cruise on the River Thames we enjoy an excursion is to Windsor Castle. Built by William the Conqueror in 1066 and a royal home for over 900 years, this is the largest inhabited castle in the world. We explore the State Apartments, see Queen Mary’s Dolls House, St George’s Chapel and enjoy the far-reaching views.
Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world and the oldest castle that has been continuously occupied. The towers and battlements create a spectacular skyline from any approach. When the Queen is in residence, the Royal Standard flies from the Round Tower. At all other times you will see the Union Flag.
The last non-tidal stretch of the river is truly royal as it flows from Windsor Castle to Hampton Court. The original settlement in Windsor was in Old Windsor. It was not until the 11th century after William the Conqueror's success at Hastings that the first wooden fortress was built. For hundreds of years the town existed primarily to house courtiers, the garrison and their families and visitors.
The expansion of Windsor did not take place until Queen Victoria's reign. The river at Windsor is graced by hundreds of mute swans, all of which are owned by Her Majesty The Queen and the Vintners' and Dyers' Livery companies. Each July the cygnets are weighed, ringed, recorded, and allocated at an ancient ceremony called Swan Upping.
What is hotel barging?
Despite the growing popularity of cruising, especiallly on large river vessels, hotel barging is still a little known niche concept. Most hotel barges started life as cargo vessels but have since been painstakingly converted to offer luxury boutique accommodation for small groups of up to 20 passengers. This is cruising, but in a very different style to ships plying the big rivers or oceans.
The pace is slow, with a 6 day cruise covering maybe just 50 miles along a rural canal. Passengers can walk or bike the towpaths as their floating hotel glides gently along. Guests enjoy an intimate atmosphere, high levels of personal service and immersion into the culture, history and gastronomy of regions of Europe such as Burgundy, the Midi, or the Italian Veneto. Every day there is an excursion, perhaps to a chateau, a vineyard for a wine tasting, or some other ‘off the beaten track’ location. About half of European Waterways’ bookings are for whole boat charters, ideal for families. Otherwise, clients book a cabin to join other like-minded people. A ‘slow boat’ European Waterways barge cruise offers the ultimate in experiential travel. A truly unique experience!
European Waterways offer luxury hotel barge cruises on the beautiful canals and rivers of Europe, such as through Burgundy, the Midi, Alsace, the Po Valley, Holland and the Scottish Highlands.
The exclusive collection of hotel barges accommodate up to 20 passengers who may charter a whole barge with family or friends, or join a small group of like-minded travellers on an individual cabin basis. Each barge is fully crewed with a Captain, chef, hostesses, deck-hand and tour guide.
The 6-night cruises include gourmet meals, fine wines, open bar, excursions and the use of facilities such as bicycles and spa pools.